Free RPG Resources - Universal NPC Emulator (Systemless)

The Universal NPC Emulator was suggested by one of The Tavern's YouTube viewers, and all I can say is, where has this been for my entire career as a DM? It's short, clocking in at 18 pages, of which 8 contain the tables you'll refer to.

When I discuss free and PWYW resources that should be part of every GM's toolkit, the Universal NPC Emulator goes to the top of that pile. Don't hesitate. Grab it before you run your next game session, no matter the system you use.

UNE is the Universal NPC Emulator. With just a handful of dice rolls, UNE can help create a surprising non-player character (NPC) with its own motivations. A few more dice rolls, and UNE can provide more direction to place the newly-created NPC smack dab in the center of the story. It can even help determine the NPC’s general mood towards the player characters.

Best of all UNE is system and setting agnostic. It will work in Techno-Roman science fiction just as well as 1930′s Cthulhu hour or apocalypse fantasy.

Examples and more tutorials for UNE can be found on the Conjecture Games Facebook page!

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Free OSR - Black Pudding #5 (Zine)

I love the entire run of the Black Pudding zine—the art, the layout, and the unconventional thinking. The whole line is classic J.V. West.

New monsters, new magics, a new class, an adventure, NPCs, and even a setting await you within the 28 pages of Black Pudding #5. Snag it for free, but trust me, you'll return for more (the whole Black Pudding line is PWYW) and likely leave a tip.

Dripping and dolloping into view comes the latest issue of this old school RPG zine chock full of nasty goodies for your classic fantasy games!

In this issue you'll see ipzees and orbii, you'll learn aromatic charms, you'll find weapons of magic, many strange people will offer their services for your adventuring party, and you will absolutely encounter some cackling ice witches.

Monsters, treasure, adventures, spells, hirelings, character sheet... everything but dice is included in this tasty concoction of gelatinized madness.

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Free OSR - Delver Magazine Issue #1 (OSE)

Delver Magazine is an OSE zine filled with random tables, charts, and an adventure. Priced at PWYW, it's another piece of every good DM's toolkit.

Delver Magazine is a bi-monthly (6 issues per year) resource for GMs of Old School RPG fantasy games such as Old-School Essentials, Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game, and other OSR games. Each issue will include a ready-to-play adventure, printable props, random charts & tables, articles, and maps for the included adventure.

Table of Contents for Issue #1

----- Random Charts & Tables -----

• That Ogre is Waving
• Listen! You Smell Something?
• Strange Map
• Gurch's Anvil
• Strange Place for a Crate
• Keeping Watch
• That Skeleton Looks Familiar!
• A Shady Character
• Ixra's Wondrous Tomes
• Nemesis: Fighter
• Strange Statue
• Wanted
• The Ally: Cleric
• The Auction House
• The Figure in the Corner
• Merchant: Binga
• Town Militia
• Agnaddob's Artifact Emporium
• Library of Niloshis Whisperwalk

----- Article(s) -----

The Referee Roundtable - Bring the Fantastic to your Settings

----- Adventure -----

Secret of the Shattered Fist Monastery - 18 page adventure

Priced at PWYW, Delver Magaine #1 should be in every DM's toolkit. It's in mine!

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